Project Gutenberg 2012-06-23 Public domain in the USA. 66 Mears, James R. The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats; or, Roughing It on the Great Lakes Produced by Dianna Adair, Stephen Hutcheson, Rod Crawford, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats; or, Roughing It on the Great Lakes" by James R. Mears is an adventure novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows two young friends, Steve Rush and Bob Jarvis, as they embark on a new challenge working as seamen on the Great Lakes after proving themselves in the mining industry. The pack of adventures and dangers they face at sea encapsulates their spirit of exploration and ambition. At the start of the story, Steve and Bob are summoned to the office of the president of their mining company, where they learn they will be working on the ship "Wanderer." However, their journey takes an unexpected turn when they accidentally fall into the ship's hold while exploring the docks. Despite the initial mishap, the boys quickly adapt to their surroundings, demonstrating their resilience and resourcefulness. The opening chapters introduce their transition from miners to sailors as they navigate the challenges aboard the ship, setting the stage for the ensuing perilous adventures on the Great Lakes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40067/40067-h/images/ironore_cover.jpg en Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America) -- Juvenile fiction Iron industry and trade -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 348885 348891 2024-09-17T03:56:55.942051 2023-09-17T12:12:43.156204 text/html text/html 353230 2012-06-23T12:12:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 481690 2012-06-23T12:12:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 502702 2024-09-17T03:57:02.832996 application/epub+zip 503679 2024-09-17T03:56:57.135035 application/epub+zip 202428 2024-09-17T03:56:56.365042 application/epub+zip 600427 2024-09-17T03:57:06.952005 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 560379 2024-09-17T03:57:02.000999 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 295947 2022-09-18T10:48:06.096138 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 307768 307629 2024-09-17T03:56:54.617060 2023-09-17T12:12:41.906207 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 307409 2012-06-23T12:10:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 113616 2012-06-23T12:12:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 307401 2012-06-23T12:10:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 113593 2012-06-23T12:12:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19906 2024-09-17T03:57:07.092970 application/rdf+xml 31325 2024-09-17T03:56:56.459044 image/jpeg 4909 2024-09-17T03:56:56.411044 image/jpeg 481291 2024-09-17T03:56:55.983029 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog